Scientists should love standards and there is no more important standard for advancement of science than all scientists in the world being fluent in a single la

Scientists should love standards and there is no more important standard for advancement of science than all scientists in the world being fluent in a single language. So far, it looks like it's going to be English. But if, after generation or two, it ends up being Spanish or Mandarin, I am fine with that. For the same reason, I am willing to use metric units in scientific matters. Or if at some point computer real time verbal and written translation between languages and measuring units is truly flawless, we have sidestepped the entire problem. But any solution that calls for fragmentation of human knowledge by having different papers and different conferences using different languages is tribal, not scientific. That is not to say that learning multiple languages is bad. It's just cultural, not scientific. With any luck, science will one day give us enough leisure that we have more time for culture.